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McCain Says Obama Is Not Dealing With Financial Crisis

ARLINGTON, Va. — Senator John McCain said on Saturday night that he thought his debate with Senator Barack Obama in Mississippi went “quite well,’’ and then accused Mr. Obama of doing nothing about the Wall Street financial crisis except using it for political gain.

“It was clear that Senator Obama still sees the financial crisis in America as a national problem to be exploited first and solved later,’’ Mr. McCain told the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance in Columbus, Ohio, in remarks delivered live by satellite from his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.
And then, in what seemed a response to a comment by Mr. Obama on Saturday that Mr. McCain had never uttered the words “middle class’’ during the debate, Mr. McCain said: “What he doesn’t seem to get is that if we don’t deal with it right now, by working together for the common good, then this crisis could turn into a far-reaching disaster for workers, businesses, retirees, and the American middle class. This is a moment of great testing, when the future of our economy is on the line.’’

After delivering his remarks, Mr. McCain headed for dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel and Café MoZU, a restaurant overlooking the Tidal Basin. Mr. McCain was accompanied by his wife, Cindy; Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, and Mr. Lieberman’s wife, Hadassah; and Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina.

Harry Reid CALLED on McCain and so did MANY Republicans to help foster bipartisian support for the bailout. mcCain WAS there. He is TRYING to do something. Obama hs done nothing except criticize the plan and then dance around the issue.
he has said “if they need me, they’ll call me”
and “im monitoring the situation by phone”

yeah he is monitoring the greatest economic disaster by phone. way to go obama!
that is change? NOT

Ho hum, does the GOP have no other plays in their playbook besides accusing the opponent of your very sins and weaknesses? McCain accuses Obama of not solving the financial crisis and using it for political ends? That’s rich, coming from the the cowboy who gratuitously inserted himself into the talks on Friday and precipitated a collapse, while ostentatiously claiming to have suspended his campaign when it was obviously business as usual for nearly all of his campaign operations. Apparently no one on his campaign staff has the intestinal fortitude to tell McCain that his Rove tricks shtick is not playing so well in Peoria anymore, or anywhere else for that matter. And a tie in a debate that was supposed to be your strong suit would be a loss in anyone’s book– if it had been a tie, but it wasn’t. His was a worse than expected performance by any reasonable standard.

Patrician? I’d say McCain was more condescending when he repeatedly said that Obama “does not get it.” But the baseless accusation will only appeal to “the base,” it will not sway the minds of independents whom McCain needs to court.

And after watching him you have to wonder that this guy is an empty vessel making a lot of noise. The man is so yesterday.

The transformation from honorable Senator McCain to lying, pandering, right-wing puppy who jumps whenever his handlers say so is pretty much complete. Senator McCain from last year, even, would be disgusted by the low political creature he’s turned into.

Senator Obama knew that the most helpful thing he could do would be to stay out of the process – he’s not on any of the finance committees and there’s little he or McCain can do besides politicize the process. He needs to remain focused on where he can do the most good – in getting elected so we can start to turn this country around for the better, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. Instead of making a new crazed, intense statement every day (often contradictory ones at that), Senator Obama has discussed the situation with those in the know in depth and offered solutions that tie in with the policies he has already laid forth. Meanwhile, Senator McCain prattled on about how the “fundamentals were strong”, no wait, the workers were strong, no wait, we are in fiscal crisis, no wait, we can’t continue the election process and must suspend everything, no wait, he has to head back to Washington, no wait, a bipartisan agreement was reached until he arrived there and buoyed House Republicans in their efforts to stop it, no wait, everything will be fine now that he’s done nothing but politicize it every step of the way.

Is anyone else exhausted of Senator McCain, his lies, his accusations, and his general lack of that which we all thought he brought to the table more than anyone else – honor?

How dense. With remarks like Mr. McCain’s, you’d think he’s the one actually trying to make any sort of political gain from the financial situation. He just keeps on stirring too much drama from this crisis. I guess, its off to solve the crisis with Joe, Graham and the lovely ladies, although I can’t foresee any real solution lest Sarah Palin arrives at Café MoZU on time.

At what point in this campaign will McCain do something original? It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Since the DNC convention McCain has copied Obama’s change theme, used Palin’s maverick theme, taken Obama’s statements to make them his own like his wordsmithing the debate absence of “middle class” into a next morning stump speech, of course with the usual personal attack. Those types of attacks appear to have cost McCain voter interest based on post-debate polling. Its been a very times since anything original, aside from gaffes, has rolled off McCain’s lips.

I would rather an old man who often loses his temper and shows his gambling habits and knows no economics, to stay out of the “crisis” negotiations. Congress has its job, while presidential candidates have their jobs. Do not inject politics as you did last week in this grave crisis, McCain!

Can someone please explain to me how delivering “remarks” and making phone calls from an office in Arlington THEN going to dinner at The Mandarin Hotel is . . . . “doing something about the economical crisis?”

Obama is out campaigning and staying on top of the negotiations via e-mails and phone.

Neither one of them can do much to help the negotiations. As McCain has clearly shown being “involved” will only hurt the process. They are not on the committees responsible for getting this resolved.

Does the McCain campaign really think we are so stupid or naive to think that doing an originally scheduled campaign stop via satellite in his office is “more serious”? That it shows he is “on top of things”. The man didn’t have any idea what was in plan as of this past Tuesday. Unreal.

Um… so John McCain holds a campaign event, at which he criticizes Barack Obama for holding campaign events? I guess McCain thinks he’s the only one who can work a telephone (after all, he did help invent the Blackberry).

I think both of them came out looking totally clueless on the economy. They were headed in the right direction with the idea of spending cuts, but I seriously doubt either one of them would cut enough to make a noticeable difference.

Just last week McCain demonstrated loud and clear that he dangerously misunderstands the state of our economy when he positively declared that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” While consistent with his declaration that when it comes to economics he “still needs to be educated”, his lack of education in economics was the last thing America wanted to hear. Rightly so, his poll numbers tanked. So what does he do? Asks that the campaigns be suspended in order to:

1. Stop the ads rightly calling out his poor judgement about the state of the economy.

2. Minimize negative headlines about him in the press, even if only temporarily.

3. Throw a wrench in Obama’s debate preparation.

4. Delay the debate to give him more time for preparation (and hope that it takes place at a time when he’s possibly polling better).

Senator McCain needs to quit injecting his self where he doesn’t belong in all reality. The banking committee made it clear the Senator was a distraction. It’s been regularly reported that Obama has been speaking with those he needs to in order to stay informed and add ideas/opinions.

It was made clear that Senator McCain loves committees since he went over that quite thoroughly in the debate, but either he’s a true executive or a micro manager. My take is he’s the micro manager.

McCain said to the Wall Street Journal, in November 2005: “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.”

In December 2007 McCain again made a similar statement, while also saying that he’d like to appoint a vice presidential running mate who is “intimately familiar” with economics, Sarah Palin? Is this the financial genius he was talking about?

In a Chicago Tribune Interview 12/07: John McCain said, “The issue of economics is something that I’ve really never understood as well as I should. I understand the basics, the fundamentals, the vision, all that kind of stuff,” he said. “But I would like to have someone I’m close to that really is a good strong economist. As long as Alan Greenspan is around I would certainly use him for advice and counsel…”I’ve never been involved in Wall Street, I’ve never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I’d like to have somebody intimately familiar with it,” he said of a potential vice presidential candidate, and that’s Sarah Palin?
GOD HELP US ALL!!!!!

Last time I checked, America still had a sitting President and there’s nothing to do on the Democratic side, since they already have an accord. McCain’s entry into the picture bought a window of opportunity for the House GOP leaders to find an excuse to stall the talks. Economists, who were not in favor of the bailout, are saying that the House GOP proposals will not work. The conflict here has nothing to do with the bailout and the problem at hand but the future direction of the Republican Party. That clearly is not Obama’s problem to solve.

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